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Nettes tennis heading to state
The Dragonettes Tennis
team has advanced to the first
round of the state playoffs
after winning against region
rival Northwest Whitfield on
Monday morning.
The team was anchored
by a strong doubles perform
ance from the team of Is
abella Lowe and Makayla
Kirchoff, who won at number
1 doubles. Ansley Berryman
and Courtney Crowe won at
number 2 doubles and
Amanda Nelson clinched the
win at number 3 singles.
Sarah Parks and Chloe
Imbriano were both leading
their matches when the team
secured the win.
Tuesday, the Nettes
played after press deadline
against the Cedartown Lady
Bulldogs for a 3rd or 4th seed
in the state tournament. The
first round of state will be
played before April 20th.
Front row from left: Isabella
Lowe, Ansley Berryman,
Courtney Crowe. Back row
from left: Coach Whitney
Carnes, Head Coach Carole
Cox, Amanda Nelson,
Makayla Kirchoff, Sarah
Parks, Chloe Imbriano,
Tempe Solomon.
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Dragons lose 2 of 3 in
series with Southeast
The Dragons entered the
fifth region series of the year
needing to put forth a good
showing to secure a playoff
birth.
On Tuesday April, 6th, the
Dragons hosted the Raiders
for the first game in the se
ries. Southwest got on the
board first by scoring in the
top of the first inning, but the
Dragons answered back.
Pickens put up 5 runs in the
bottom of the first inning to
jump out to a 5-1 lead. The
bats would stay hot through
out the rest of the game.
Pickens added one run in the
bottom of the second. After
Southeast plated a run in the
top of the fourth, the Dragons
would put up four runs.
Southeast would plate two
runs in the fifth inning to
make the score 10-4 with the
Dragons coming to the plate.
Pickens finished off the
Raiders in five innings after
scoring four runs to secure
the mercy rule. JP Nunn was
the winning pitcher for the
Dragons. Seth Densmore
took one deep in the fourth
inning. The Dragons racked
up 12 hits in the game, in
cluding three hit perform-
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ances from Parker Rhodes
and Hunter White.
In game two of the series,
the Dragons watched a 2 run
first inning lead slip away
and could never recover. The
Raiders added three runs in
the bottom of the first inning
and one more in the bottom
of the fourth. In the fifth in
ning, the Dragons plated one
run to cut into the lead, but
the Raiders answered with a
seven-run performance.
Pickens would answer with
one run to cut the score to 11-
4 in the top of the 6th. How
ever, the Raiders would score
three runs to mercy ride the
Dragons. Connor Shouse and
Trace Ledbetter led the Drag
ons with two hits apiece.
The Dragons were look
ing to take the series in game
three, but unfortunately the
game got out of hand early.
After Pickens plated two
runs in the top of the second
inning, the Raiders re
sponded with 11 runs in the
bottom half. They added one
run in the third inning, and
that would be enough to hold
on to the victory. Pickens
would try to mount a come
back by scoring four runs in
the top of the fifth inning, but
it wasn’t enough. Jarod
Whitmore went two for four
at the plate in the loss.
The Dragons now enter
their final series of the season
against Ridgeland after a bye
week, where they will take
on Fannin and Cookeville.
Pickens High golf wins
King and Queen of 515
The boys and girls golf teams after winning the King and Queen tournament at Old
Toccoa Farm.
Landon VanSant and Heather Vincent at the
tournament this week.
The annual King and Queen of 515
golf tournament took place on Mon
day. This year the tournament was
held at Old Toccoa Fann with Fannin
as the host school.
Pickens won this year’s tournament
with a score of 115. Fannin County
came in second with a score of 121,
while Gilmer came in third place with
a score of 133.
The three top teams for Pickens con
sisted of Seth Cronic and Emery
Bryant (38), Landon VanSant and
Heather Vincent (38) and Matthew
Campbell and Lauren Quarles (39).
The win gives the group momen
tum as they prepare for the upcoming
area tournament that determines qual
ification for the state championship.
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Seth White breaks
PHS mile record
Seth White breaks PHS school record for the mile with
a time of 4:17.57 at the Marietta Spring Break Showcase.
The previous record of 4:22.59 was set by Sean Parker in
2016. Seth now has the #1 time in the state in Class 4A and
the #8th time overall. Congratulations Seth.
Sports
Fanatic
By
Tommy
Gartrell
Columnist
A Few
Turkey Tips
A 23 pound, 3 ounce, 10
1/4 inch beard, 11/16-
inch spurs taken in
Pickens County by
the columnist.
Georgia’s turkey season
is almost a month old now
and practically half gone.
Have you taken a bird?
Have you hunted at all?
Perhaps, as is often the
case with chasing gobblers,
have your hunts ended in
frustration? As confound
ing as turkeys are to hunt
anyway, have many of your
problems been self in
flicted? I offer a few tips
which might help you bag
a big bird henceforth. Lord
knows, most of them I
learned the hard way over
the 34 springs since the late
Sammy McGhee took me
on my first turkey hunt.
Do you have effective
concealment? Thorough
camouflage including face
and hands matters. A sim
ple portable netting system
or stake up/pop up blind
gives you more freedom to
maneuver masks your out
line.
Reduce or eliminate po
tential noises which might
compromise your hunt.
Clear leaves and limbs
away from your spot. Does
your clothing make noise
when you move? How
about the rattle of all that
gear in your hunting vest?
Do you really need 50
pounds of gear including
20 calls in there?
I carry two locator calls
(owl and crow), a gobble
tube, a box, a slate, a wing
bone and a couple of di
aphragm calls. Seldom do I
use all of them in the same
hunt though. Many times,
an ole box call is the only
one that I touch. Why? Ask
someone who’s hunted
with me.
Are you comfortable? Nor
mally, like calling, less is
more for me. I tend to be a
minimalist regarding the
amount of luggage that I
want to tote up and down
the southern Appalachians.
I do insist on some comfort
though. Nowadays, we
have access to wonderful,
lightweight seats and cush
ions which assuredly beat
sitting on the cold ground
against the base of an oak
tree.
Are you accustomed to
your equipment? Pattern
your shotgun with the same
ammunition with which
you hunt and know the ef
fective range of it. Have
you used a new gun
enough to have instinctive
muscle memory of the
safety location or sight
placement?
Is it clean and working
properly? Murphy’s Law
gets us all eventually, so
leave as little as possible to
chance. That bird which
See Gartrell on Page 3B